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Art Maynard
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Art Maynard was the 2nd person to officially
exceed 100 mph in a limited class boat. That was accomplished with his
225 cubic inch class Wickens hydro above.
Straightaway - 08/11/52 - Seattle, WA - Art Maynard Restless - Ford/Wickens - 100.029 mph Competition - 11/11/51 - Salton Sea, CA (2 & 1/2 Mile) - Art Maynard Restless - Ford/Wickens - 75.630* mph *(Not 'officially' recognized - mark was surpassed in the second heat by Richard Hallett that same day). (Thanks to Bob Foley for researching the above records). 1951 - National High Point Champion - 225
hydro class
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MOTORBOAT drivers of America have shot all their big guns for 1949. The last barrage was fired during the last week-end (a five-day weekend) at Salton Sea in the ninth Desert Regatta and as a result two ace Long Beach drivers have added more records to the imposing number held by membership of the Southern California Speedboat Club. Art Maynard drove Al Menken's E-Racing runabout Plastigo to a new record, which yesterday went in for final A. P. B. A. approval, at 61.813 m.p.h. for five-mile competition. The mark clipped the 61.058 m.p.h. record made more than a year ago in Florida by Lorin Pennington with Copperhead. Glenn Miller of Long Beach, with Commodore Roy Skaggs of S. C. S. C. in co-pilot role, went 68.56 m.p.h. straightaway to crack the record of 68.080 made on Missten Bay this spring by George Zimmer's Skimon Demon. |
| The newest chapter in the Southern California
Speedboat Club's best-seller, "Conquest of Florida" has now been written
by a pair of Long Beach boat stars, Art Maynard and Al Menkens. Just returned
from the latest of the annual crusade to meet
the nation's best in the big Grapefruit Circuit, driver Maynard and owner Menkens came back, with just about everything in the books, except the boat, Plastigo. Following races at four big meets in which the record holding runabout snared seven wins, a second, third and one did-not-finish in 10 starts, Menkens disposed of the Plastigo to Lou Nutas of Miami. Trophies brought back include the St. Petersburg perpetual trophy, the Fort Lauderdale silver pitcher. At St. Petersburg Maynard turned the fastest time, 62.5 m.p.h. ever made on the difficult triangular course. In the race Plastigo defeated R. Critchfield's famed Hell's Angel in a race in which the former Southern California E-job, Copperhead, disintegrated in a spill. Lacking a boat, Menkens has turned to build a new one. He doubts it will be ready for the opening season regatta, May 7 at Parker Dam, but said the boat will be ready for all comers by time of the first big meet on Marine Stadium, the 2nd Annual North Long Beach 20-30 Club National Memorial Day Regatta, May 30. |
| ART MAYNARD of Long Beach, California
has retained for California the Trimper Trophy for 1952, with his performance
of Restless III, 225 cu. inch Div. II hydroplane. Elmer Enquist
of Petaluma, Calif. held this award in 1950 and was runner-up for 1951
with 2,300 points as compared to 2,925 for Maynard. Enquist had the Firefly
racing in 1950. The Trimper Trophy was the gift of George Trimper of Buffalo,
New York who has been racing in the Buffalo region for about 10 years.
It is a take-home award to be donated for five successive years.
Maynard isn't new to racing. Back in 1930 in Boston he played "water boy" for racers on the Eastern Seaboard, pulling boats in and out of the water, packing outboards from trailer to boat. In high school he had his own outboard with a 14-hp which wasn't fast enough into the racing classes. After coming California, Art saved his
pennies to buy the boat he could put into competition and in 1945 he achieved
that goal by racing his 135 hydroplane, Lil Beauty, at Salton Sea,
his first race, taking third place in his class and second in the
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| Art Maynard, Long Beach, Calif., won the
Limited Class hydroplane race yesterday afernoon while he was unconscious
from the waters of Lake Washington by another racing driver who sacrificed
his own chances of winning to make the rescue. Eddie Meyer, Hollywood,Calif.
driver of the Avenger IV, was the hero who rescued Maynard. Maynard
was not seriously hurt, but was taken by ambulance to a hospital for a
checkup. He was thrown into the lake when his speeding boat, the Dollar
Bill, event out of control and flipped over. Meyer held him up until a
Coast Guard patrol boat pulled him out Maynard torn to shreds in the crash.
Maynard won the Seattle Seafair Trophy on the basis of his victory in the
first of the two heats. He had tied with Charles Kobus, Vancouver, B. C.,
at 400 points for a heat victory apiece, but his speed of 83 miles an hour
bettered Kobus' second heat-winning time of about 75 miles per hour for
the 7 miles. Maynard was going at high speed near the front of the field,
when his craft's prow apparently lifted too high off the water and wavered
to disaster. The Dollar Bill was wrecked.
John D. Beverly of Spokane Seed third in his Lettuce Go with 320 points. |
| Despite an explosion which destroyed his
speedboat, Art Maynard of Hollywood, Calif., won the Seafair Trophy limited-
class race yesterday on the Gold Cup course. Maynard' s 266-cubic-inch speedboat $ Bill won the first heat of the limited-class free-for-all and earned 400 points. In the first turn of the second heat, $ Bill exploded, tossing Maynard into the water. Charles Kobus piloted his Mercury VII to victory in that second heat, also earning 400 points. Maynard was awarded the $4,000 Trophy, originally offered for Gold Cup class boats, by virtue of his faster time. Maynard's time for the first heat was 5 minutes 27.19 seconds. Kobus did 6:03.21 in the second heat. Results (boat, cubic-inch class, driver,
time):
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